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The most
successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure
uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other
possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are
viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American
Mind

New! August
24, 2002- West Nile death toll climbs to 16 - The
mosquito-borne virus has now infected 371 people, including the
first patients in Maryland, Nebraska and Virginia, the CDC said.
The two most recent deaths were both in Georgia. The victims were a
51-year-old Atlanta man and a 77-year-old man from Columbus.
Comment: While we think that this "West Nile
Virus" thing is being hyped to scare people, the Secret State in
this country has never had any qualms about experimenting on the
public by dropping disease causing organisms from the atmosphere.
So, maybe this is cover for such activities? But, no need to cower
indoors. Knowledge Protects. So does mosquito
repellant.

The swollen Yangtze River is putting
pressure on the hundreds of kilometers of shoreline along the lake
in central China where water levels are rising by a centimeter an
hour, flood officials told CNN. Note: After
all the build-up, the suspense is terrible. Is the levee gonna
break, or is it not? Let's hope not.

FBI agents investigating the leak of
classified information have asked members of the Senate
Intelligence Committee for telephone records, schedules and other
documents indicating any conversations lawmakers had with
reporters. - The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are
conducting a joint inquiry into the September 11 attacks. -
Comment: Ooops! Looks like those boys in
Black Ops are now going to quell any questions Congress might have
about 9-11 or the Patriot Act by simple intimidation! Looks to us
like the Secret State controls the country by controlling Congress.
Yup! McCarthy is alive and well and running the FBI! Write your
congressman and tell them not to put up with any of that
nonsense!Go here to enter your zip code and get the email
forms for your own representatives. You can copy and paste into
these fields so as to save time repeating what you wish to say to
as many representatives as you wish. Have your say and have fun at
the same time! Meanwhile, have a look at the next item:

The U.S. Justice Department has appealed
a special intelligence court ruling that limits prosecutors'
ability to share information with intelligence agencies under the
anti-terrorism Patriot Act. In that same ruling, the presiding
judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, U.S. District
Court Judge Royce Lamberth, detailed how the FBI has made an
"alarming number" of errors in seeking and using national security
warrants in terrorism investigations since 2000. Comment: Not a surprise! But we are certainly seeing the
conflict between the Secret State and the people via their elected
representatives as detailed in Richard Dolan's book:UFOs and the National Security Stateand reviewed in our articleSomething Wicked This Way Comes.The Secret State has an agenda, a schedule, and they
aren't gonna let anything like law or Congress stop them! And if
anybody in Congress goes after them, they get rid of 'em pretty
quick like they did
Cynthia McKinney! As long as we let money and
lies elect our representatives, they are in the Secret State's
pocket. (For a hint: see who funded McKinney's
opponent!)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court is a secret court that oversees spying in the United
States. It was set up to oversee implementation of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Judges on that court ruled
that the Justice Department is misinterpreting its new powers under
the U.S.A. Patriot Act that Congress passed last October. The court
said the Justice Department's plan to allow prosecutors to become
involved in intelligence investigations goes too far.

Authorities in eastern Germany said the
receding waters had exposed World War II ammunition. - The death
toll from the floods that have raged across central and eastern
Europe has risen to at least 114 after a 35-year-old man died near
the east German town of Riesa when his vehicle overturned on a
flooded road. - Heavy rains across central and eastern Europe have
created flooding conditions not seen for centuries, killing more
than 100 people, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of
others, and devastating historic city centres in Germany and the
Czech Republic. Flooding also has hit communities in Austria,
Slovakia, Russia and Romania. -Some of the most devastating floods in
recent memory have killed tens of thousands of people this year in
Europe, Asia, North America and other points across the globe -
Comment: Ignore the stupid theories about WHY
there are so many floods all of a sudden in this last article. We
think that the increasing disruption of the earth's surface has a
lot to do with the "accelerated agenda" of the Secret State as
exemplified in their push for total control. Earth Changes are
indeed cranking up and they want to have everything ready in time
for the Big Kahuna!

The oldest confirmed meteorite slammed
into the Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, setting off worldwide
tsunamis and dust clouds that possibly affected the primordial life
forms, scientists said this week. Yeah,
right! More spin doctoring. Now you see it, now you
don't!

New! August 23, 2002 -
How Did
United Flight 93 Crash? - Since we are receiving so many
interesting links from readers, and since most of them focus on
Flight 77, we thought we ought to post one about Flight
93.

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 - 8:20 am:
Flight 77 departs from Dulles Airport. Some 20 miles from the
Pentagon. 8:50: Last radio communication with flight 77. Now
some 280 miles from the Pentagon. 8:56: Transponder contact
lost. Now some 335 miles from the Pentagon. 9:00: Flight 77
turns and heads for the Pentagon (Washington DC). Now some 370
miles away from the Pentagon. 9:37: AA77 crashes into the
southwest side of the Pentagon. Now, precisely 0 miles from the
Pentagon.

Well, lets have look at the evidence from another angle.
Flight 77 leaves Dulles International Airport at 8:20 am. Flight
77's transponder is turned off at 8:56 am. The fact that flight
77's transponder was turned off means only that the aircraft
stopped transmitting its name and altitude, etc, but it was still
very visible to radar. Flight 77 disappears from all radar screens
a couple of minutes later, somewhere near the Ohio border.
An aircraft appears on radar south of Washington DC, close to the
city. This aircraft eventually crashes into the Pentagon. So the
aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon could not possibly have
been flight 77. This is simply because, if it had flown from the
Ohio border back to Washington DC it would have been visible to
radar for the entire trip. And, we are told that it was not. So
given this, why do most people believe that flight 77 hit the
Pentagon? Because the media told them so (and this is the one and
only reason that most believe flight 77 hit the Pentagon). But the
evidence (without even examining the Pentagon scene itself) already
says that this is impossible. Comment: Since
Flight 77 disappeared from radar near the Ohio border, we wonder
how close it was to Wright Patterson AFB???

Critical Thinking: Emerging Theories - "I began
this project in response to the Hunt the Boeing site, a French
research effort into curiosities regarding the Pentagon crash site
and the 'official line'. I was intrigued, but offended by the
hostile tone of the presentation. I felt I had some more benign
theories to answer complicated questions of my own. - It has
occurred to me that the theory has taken a turn toward the
'extreme.' This was not intentional. I merely started out to debunk
the French site, a seemingly simple task with the data available. I
rejected most of the 'radical' theories out-right, but research has
compelled me to look at some very disturbing circumstantial
evidence. I still hold a more pro-American viewpoint and at the
same time realize the extreme nature of the situation I propose
requires the most extreme of measures to be taken only in an
emergency as grave as war. This is wartime thinking. This is only a
theory." Comment: This guy is going around
his elbow to get to his thumb. Nevertheless, he has some
interesting ideas and images. Most especially this page analyzing
The Pentagon Crash Video

Plane
Crash Photos- Not an
exhaustive collection, but sufficient to give an idea of what a
plane wreck site might look like under various conditions. After
you have a look at these photos, try going back to Penta-Lawn 2000! to again view and compare the
many shots of the Pentagon crash field at various stages of the
"event."

Police rebuff Bush protesters -
Black-helmeted police in full riot gear fired pepper spray,
bean-bag rounds and rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters who
filled the streets of Portland on Thursday outside the hotel where
Bush attended Republican Sen. Gordon Smith's re-election campaign
fund-raiser. - Chanting "Drop Bush, Not Bombs" and carrying signs
with messages that included "It's the Economy, Stupid," the crowd
of mostly young people occasionally blocked streets and tied up
traffic during the afternoon as they made their way from a downtown
park to the hotel. - At first policed by officers on horseback and
on foot, the protest turned violent with the arrival of police in
riot gear.

Police Open Fire on Bush Protesters - "At least
3000 people gathered in Portland today to protest President George
Bush. Bush was visiting the state to spread lies about forest
health and shake down the local ruling class to raise bribe money
for regional crime lord Senator Gordon Smith, who is the Republican
incumbent for U.S. Senate. The day of dissent started with a
tree-sit in a downtown park where thousands gathered in the
afternoon. Hundreds of police officers , including many in full
riot gear, staked out a nine square block area around the Hilton
Hotel where the fundraiser was happening. Protesters had free reign
throughout the rest of downtown where they took the streets and
blocked intersections. In the late afternoon, police declared a
state of emergency to the glee of the protesters, and threatened to
arrest anyone who did not disperse. Police then turned violent,
shot people with rubber bullets and peppersprayed many others,
including a 10 month old baby [ story: 1 | 2 ]. When the sun set
people danced in the street and continued to face off police. The
general feeling among participants was that it had been a great
day. Corporate media accounts, unsurprisingly, gave different,
often highly inaccurate, accounts."

September 11th: Here's What Happened - Wanna take
a ride? This is wild, thought provoking, and more than I really
want to believe, but with our Shadow Government running things from
hardened underground bunkers, who knows? - Cassiopaea comments: If the reader will go to
UFOs and the National Security State and read
just the introduction of Dolan's book, and then read the quoted
excerpts about mass mind control experiments extracted from Dolan's
book in our article Something Wicked This Way Comes, this analysis
becomes less problematical. That is not to say that we think it is
100% on the money, but based on info we have, including C's
comments, the guy is getting very, very close. Note: Some of the
links in the article will pull 404 errors. Not a
surprise.

Asian floods claim 1,800 lives -
Flooding that has claimed an estimated 1,800 lives across Asia is
worsening, with forecasters predicting conditions to deteriorate
further over the next few days.

New! August
22, 2002- If life is just a game, who's the programmer?
- As the publicity for the sequels to the blockbuster film The
Matrix are being aired on a clutch of official and unofficial
websites, it emerges that we might already be living in a computer
simulation, analogous to the one popularised by the original
high-kicks, high-concept Matrix film. - While Reeves and Laurence
Fishburne were busy working on Matrix Reloaded in Sydney earlier
this year, back to back with another gravity-defying sequel, Matrix
Revolutions, Dr Nick Bostrom, a Swedish philosopher at Yale
University, has leap-frogged developments in the fictional world of
films by concluding that the idea of an alternative
computer-generated way of life might not be sci-fi but sci-fact.-
Others have mused on whether reality is actually virtual. Dr Robin
Hanson, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in the
Journal of Evolution and Technology, says that if your life is a
computer simulation, you should do everything possible to avoid
being deleted.

Jesus.com - Our son found this site and, at first,
I thought it was just a very funny spoof. However, I clicked around
the pages, laughing, until I discovered that "Jesus" isn't so silly
after all. Have a look at his sermon Two
Minutes 'til Midnight: A Prophecy Fulfilled Very clever
guy.

UFOs and the National Security State: An
Unclassified History Volume One: 1941 to 1973 by Richard M. Dolan.
Complete sample chapters included on this site. Read the Intro for
a marvelous synopsis of the situation. - "The UFO problem is a real
one. It has involved military personnel around the world for more
than fifty years, and is wrapped in secrecy. - If there are aliens,
why not just come out and say so? - Based upon the actions taken by
the official structures of power regarding UFO information, it
would appear that the truth of the matter constitutes a threat to
those in charge. - So, just how serious is the UFO problem? Are
aliens really among us? If so, what do they want? - What we have
here is a widespread phenomenon affecting many people, generating
high levels of interest, concerning a project that is taking place
in near-complete secrecy, for purposes unknown, by entities
unknown, with access to apparently substantial resources and
technology. That, at least, is how matters appear to
be."

We
are noticing some definite "shifts" in the political scene and we
wonder if it is due to the activity of the internet networking? Is
it possible that when we act in favor of our destiny in ways that
do not include violating the free will of others, that it actually
might be effective in the political world of lies and confusion?
Thanks to the many, many readers who signed the petition to abolish
the Patriot Act, and who forwarded the information to their
families and friends.

Whatever is happening behind the "closed doors" on Capitol
Hill, now is not the time to relax. If we continue to network, to
share information, to exert the small effort required to keep our
representatives informed of our opinions and wishes, we may have a
nonlinear effect on our future. Two weeks ago, it was pretty bleak.
Now, there are inklings of hope that the combined pressures of
constituency and leaders of other nations, might bring the 9-11
issues to a different end other than the destruction that was
staring us in the face not too long ago.

Now, it is time to act in favor of our destiny in another
direction. In a speech to the Houston Forum yesterday, House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay called for the United States to attack
Iraq. During his speech, Mr. DeLay correctly stated "the rule of
law" is one of the "bulwarks of liberty."

Unfortunately, the crux of Mr. DeLay's speech was his
statement that the "question is not whether to go to
war...."

But
that is precisely the question and the question that ONLY Congress
- obeying the will of the people - can properly answer.

Our
law gives Congress the authority to declare war; and only after
Congress does this can the president - as commander-in-chief of our
nation's military - execute the war. (separation of
powers).

Should the United States attack Iraq? As that question becomes
more intensely and widely debated by all Americans, let's remember
it can be answered by Congress and only Congress - the
representatives of the people's will. If Congress answers yes,
Congress must pass a declaration of war by a recorded
vote.

Please help Mr. DeLay to understand that in our republic, our
law says Congress must decide. And congress decides based on the
INFORMED opinion of the people. So, let's give him the opinion of
the people.

Unfortunately, Congressman Tom DeLay does not accept emails
from anyone but his own constituents. So, in addition to writing to
your own representative, you might write, call or FAX Mr. DeLay's
Capitol Hill Office 2370 Rayburn House Office Building Washington,
DC 20515 Ph: 202-225-5951 FAX: 202-225-5241

Saudis Plan to Sue U.S. over Sept. 11 - A
group of Saudis plan to sue the U.S. government and media
organizations for the alleged psychological and financial damage
they suffered in the aftermath of September 11, their lawyer said
on Wednesday. - Shamri said the potential plaintiffs included
Saudis whose names had initially been listed among the hijackers of
the planes that crashed into U.S. landmarks. - Others want to sue
U.S. law enforcement officers for harassing them in the hunt for
the perpetrators. Hundreds of Saudis have been questioned by U.S.
authorities investigating the attacks.

Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome
- is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are
math-and-tech genes to blame? - Children who lack basic social and
motor skills, seem unable to decode body language and sense the
feelings of others, avoid eye contact, and frequently launch into
monologues about narrowly defined - and often highly technical -
interests. Even when very young, these children become obsessed
with order, arranging their toys in a regimented fashion on the
floor and flying into tantrums when their routines are disturbed.
As teenagers, they're prone to getting into trouble with teachers
and other figures of authority, partly because the subtle cues that
define societal hierarchies are invisible to them. - In one of the
uncanny synchronicities of science, autism was first recognized on
two continents nearly simultaneously. In 1943, a child psychiatrist
named Leo Kanner published a monograph outlining a curious set of
behaviors he noticed in 11 children at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore. A year later, a pediatrician in Vienna named Hans
Asperger, who had never seen Kanner's work, published a paper
describing four children who shared many of the same traits. Both
Kanner and Asperger gave the condition the same name: autism - from
the Greek word for self, autòs - because the children in their
care seemed to withdraw into iron-walled universes of their
own.

Cassiopaeans say: The concept of a "master race" put forward
by the Nazis was merely a 4th density STS effort to create a
physical vehicle with the correct frequency resonance vibration for
4th density STS souls to occupy in 3rd density. It was also a
"trial run" for planned events in what you perceive to be your
future.
Q: (L) You mean with a strong STS frequency so they can have a
"vehicle" in 3rd density, so to speak?
A: Correct. Frequency resonance vibration! Very important.
Q: (L) So, that is why they are programming and experimenting? And
all these folks running around who some think are "programmed,"
could be individuals who are raising their nastiness levels high
enough to accommodate the truly negative STS 4th density - sort of
like walk-ins or something, only not nice ones?
A: You do not have very many of those present yet, but that was,
and still is, the plan of some of the 4th density STS
types.

Q:
Dr. David Jacobs says that now, after all of these years of
somewhat rigorous research, that he KNOWS what the aliens are here
for and he is afraid. David Jacobs says that producing offspring is
the primary objective behind the abduction phenomenon. Is this, in
fact, the case?
A: Part, but not "the whole thing."
Q: (L) Is there another dominant reason?
A: Replacement.
Q: (L) Replacement of what?
A: You.
Q: (L) How do you mean? Creating a race to replace human beings, or
abducting specific humans to replace them with a clone or
whatever?
A: Mainly the former. You see, if one desires to create a new race,
what better way than to mass hybridize, then mass reincarnate.
Especially when the host species is so forever ignorant,
controlled, and anthropocentric. What a lovely environment for
total destruction and conquest and replacement... see?

A
reader comments on the above link to Autism/Asperger's: "As you
might know, candida albicans overgrowth is nearly a modern pandemic
and is responsible for a bewilderingly wide array of symptoms. It
can be remarkably resistant to treatment."

Cassiopaea comments: Reading this made me think that a lot of
problems with children might be related to the idea of "as above,
so below." Colonies of parasites might "frequency resonate" with
any numbers of types of negative "energies." And so, if you get rid
of the parasites, the STS energies no longer have an inroad. It
would be a start, for sure.

Who was behind the September eleventh attacks? -
Presentation by Thierry Meyssan - All these testimonies and
observations correspond to the effects of an AGM [air to ground
missile]-86C of the third (most recent) generation of CALCM
[conventional air launched cruise missile] equipped with depleted
uranium warheads and guided by GPS [global positioning system].
This type of missile, seen from the side, would easily remind one
of a small civilian airplane, but it is not a plane. It produces a
shrill whistle comparable to that of a fighter-bomber, can be
guided with enough accuracy to be directed through a window, can
pierce the most resistant armor and can set off a fire -
independent of its piercing effect - that will generate heat of
over 2,000° Celsius. (
debunking of Meyssan caveat lector - read
Something Wicked This
Way Comes for background on such Media spin-doctoring
)

Russia Warns America and Israel Away From
Iraq - largely ignored by the western media. - The Russian
armed forces have for weeks been carrying out extensive exercises
in the southern Caspian Sea, located due north of Iran and to the
east of Iraq. - Smiling blandly as usual, Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Ivanov stressed that the exercises did not carry any threat
to Russia's neighbors, but added that Russia would be naive to
ignore the potential terrorist threat it faces in the Caspian
region. - Interfax news agency quoted the minister as saying.
“...We would be too naive not to notice what kind of
processes take place in the region surrounding the Caspian and we
will use all our might against terrorists who are not happy with
the current situation." - Bearing in mind that most of the Russian
military hierarchy quietly view the Jews in Palestine as the worst
“terrorists” in the world, the implied threat seems
clear enough.

Immediately after 9-11, Jewish Lobbies immediately called for
an attack on Iraq by the United States and her allies, citing
“Saddam the Butcher who killed his own Kurds” and
alleging that Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” were
being manufactured for immediate use. - The objective of this end
game is to hand total control of middle east oil to the Jewish
State and its American lobbies. - Whoever controls world oil
production and distribution controls the world itself. - From the
[Zionists] entirely unique perspective, America, Britain, and
others must be encouraged to launch a massive strike against Iraq
very quickly, before public opinion has a chance to go into reverse
gear, which is a very real danger at present. Polls in Britain,
France and Germany have already shown extreme public resistance to
an attack on Iraq, and now to a lesser extent the American public
is going the same way.

Perhaps for the first time this century and despite a constant
bombardment of media brainwashing, members of the public have
started to sense what the Jews are really about, and are at last
reluctant to sacrifice their Christian husbands, or their sons and
daughters, for the greater [and entirely exclusive] good of the
[Zionist] State.

The
Russians and others have watched on with interest as the
Jewish-controlled American media has ruthlessly recycled its tired
old emotional lies about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, which by early
2002 were the only realistic “newspeak” tool the Jews
had left in their propaganda arsenal. That both claims about
“weapons of mass destruction” and “gassed
Kurds” are complete lies, is now beyond dispute. -
Former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Scott
Ritter has gone on the record many times, stating that Iraq
no longer had any nuclear, chemical or bacteriological weapons of
note, and lacks any realistic chance of building such weapons now
or in the future. Ritter also points discreetly to known illegal
stockpiles of all three types of banned weapons in the Jewish
State, a flagrant breach of International Law. -

There is little doubt the Russians are acutely aware of the
Jewish end game, and are seemingly prepared to go to considerable
lengths [probably including tactical nuclear] to ensure that it
does not succeed. Also of considerable concern to Moscow is a
recent low-key Jewish threat to unilaterally attack any Russian
nuclear reactor reaching completion in Iran. -

Just in case the “International Community” fails
to get the Caspian military message, Russia recently ratcheted the
pressure up a little more by planning a US$40 billion economic
cooperation plan with Iraq. The agreement, which includes oil,
irrigation, agriculture, transportation, railroads and electrical
energy, will most likely be signed in Baghdad during early
September, around the same time that New Yorkers will be psyching
themselves up for the first anniversary of the 9/11
attack.

Under normal circumstances, most western politicians and
“Friends of Israel” groups would support a large-scale
attack against Iraq in a flash, if only to line their own pockets.
But this time things are different. If there is one thing any
politician fears more than ruthless Jewish lobby pressure, it is
the prospect of losing his or her job and the fringe benefits that
go with it. With voters in open revolt at the prospect of sending
their sons and daughters to war solely for the benefit of the
“Poor Holocaust Jews”, large numbers of western
politicians have opted for survival by bottling out of the debate.
The reality is that most members of the western public have now
seen the very same “Poor Holocaust Jews” on television,
ruthlessly at work in Palestine with their automatic weapons, tanks
and bulldozers. As barbaric killers and war criminals they have no
peers, and very large numbers of ordinary western voters no longer
have any time for them.

When Puppies Die On Animal Abuse, Al-Qaeda's Got
Nothin' on the US Military - Just in case there were a few
of you left who aren't biting the "al-Qaeda is the most evil group
of people to exist in the history of the world" bit, along comes
the "they kill puppies!" tapes. - PETA says: "No matter where you
stand on international conflicts, it is a painful fact that the
Israeli army has also blown up unanesthetized pigs with Scud
missile explosives and conducted other painful experiments on dogs,
monkeys, doves, mice, toads, and guinea pigs. An article in the
March 17, 2000, issue of Ha'aretz, Israel’s most respected
daily newspaper, reported that experiments carried out by the
Israel Defense Forces on animals were so horrific that the soldiers
forced to conduct the experiments had to seek psychological
counseling." - "Each year, at least 320,000 primates, dogs, pigs,
goats, sheep, rabbits, cats, and other animals are hurt and killed
by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in experiments that rank
among the most painful conducted in this country...The cost to
taxpayers for these military experiments is estimated to be in
excess of $100 million annually." - "187,257 animals die in actual
DOD labs, and 139,840 suffer in non-DOD labs funded by DOD
contracts." - So, in agreement with PETA, yes, I hate it when
puppy-dogs die. "What the al-Qaida did to that dog was appalling,
but let’s be honest with ourselves that we and our allies are
guilty of the same sort of barbarism.”

Too
bad we can't see tapes of 1. The Tuskegee Study of Untreated
Syphilis in the Negro Male (the official title of the Tuskegee
Experiment) 2. Experiments performed by Nazi doctors on victims in
concentration camps - the same doctors hired by the CIA after the
war. 3. Experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission on
civilians and military personnel in the USA. 4. Experiments in
which unwitting subjects were given LSD by the CIA or U. S. Army (a
part of the project sometimes called MKULTRA) 5. Experiments on
children and pregnant women 6. The Milgram experiment, which tested
the willingness of subjects to participate in an experiment which
seemed to harm other subjects. This is not a "conspiracy rant," but
rather a compendium of factual information assembled by Dr. Steven
Hale, Humanities Division, DeKalb College. Nonconsensual Human Experimentation -
Discussion and links to sites that discuss:

ACLU Seeks Information on Government's Use of Vast New
Surveillance Powers - "This Administration's penchant for
secrecy is matched only by its contempt for accountability to the
American people and their elected representatives," said Barry
Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program.
- "Attorney General Ashcroft bullied a panicked Congress into an
overnight revision of the nation's surveillance laws just six weeks
after the September 11 attacks," Steinhardt added. "The nation
needs to know if these powers are truly making us any safer -- or
just less free."

China struggles to stem rising waters -
Almost a million people are battling to stop China's second largest
freshwater lake and surrounding rivers from flooding, while
families living nearby have begun to flee their homes.

Germany struggles to contain rivers -
The high water is now approaching the mouth of the Elbe in Hamburg,
but officials say sodden dikes could still burst upstream, where
waters are still higher than normal and moving fast.

New! August
21, 2002- Not to belabor
the issue, but a reader sent in a link and we had a look. The most
compelling thing about this page - after you go through all the
struggle with doubt while viewing the pentagon images - was the two
images at the bottom - photos of the Lockerbie crash. It sort of
really hits home at that moment that something is seriously wrong
with this farce. See: The Hunt For The Red And Silver Boeing...
See also: Penta-Lawn 2000! - The most resilient lawn
ever! Exclusively tested at the Pentagon on September 11,
2001.

Friendly Fire: In the early 1960s,
America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill
innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to
create public support for a war against Cuba. - Details of the
plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by
investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's
largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. - The plans had
the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were
presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert
McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the
civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years.
- "The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to
the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the
military trying to trick the American people into a war that they
want but that nobody else wants." Sounds
familiar!

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip
the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows
the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and
the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will
have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather the
citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer
up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I
know? For this is what I have done. Julius Ceasar

Regular readers of this website know that the Cassiopaeans
tell us repeatedly that "Knowledge Protects." The catch is: it only
does this when APPLIED. Those of you who have read
Something Wicked This
Way Comes and
Noe and the Ark, and
The Future of
the Beast Empire, are also aware that we are in living in truly
interesting times. Regular readers are also aware that we do not
promote "acting against" anyone at any time. But the Cassiopaeans
have taught us that acting FOR our destiny is essential.

On
July 31st, right after our first ever Cassiopaean Conference, the
C's told us:

C's: Groups of people represent energy portals in cosmic
rather than global terms. They are "connectors" on a cosmic level.
Transducers of energy of transition rather like capacitors!
Q: What do you mean by "transition?"
C's: Transiton of your sector of space/time.
Q: Transition to what?
C's: It will depend on how much awareness you manage to generate to
direct the energy. The energy can be "food for the moon" or "food
for the soul."
Q: (I) Well, that is a pretty difficult concept for us to grasp. I
have a hard time thinking that my life is important in any way at
all. But you are saying that this meeting of our group was
significant in some way?
A: More than anyone realizes. Remember that groups "transduce"
cosmic energy. Think of the energy transmitted into your realm by
your gathering. All of you have value far beyond your own
understanding to this point. It would be wise to remember this and
be cautious. Go from this point with joy in this knowledge and...
defend it.

And
we see around us, every day, the events that tell us that the C's
were correct when they said that the events of Nazi Germany were a
"dress rehearsal" for the events prior to the Transition. We have
just had the equivalent of the Reichstag Fire.

Did
we learn anything?

Those STS guys are pretty desperate to make sure that THEIR
reality is the one that manifests at some "nexus point" in the not
too distant future. However, we seek to enhance the STO option for
ourselves and to make it known that there IS an option to others
who may then choose it also and assist in manifesting an STO
reality at the "branching point" of our possible
futures.

Even if we think there is no hope, that no small thing we do
can make a difference, let us remember:

'...predictions for the future have the form: IF this, THEN
this; IF NOT, then that. If the situation, as it really is, is not
known, no one will take any action and the predictions for the
"future" will be "set." However, if there is a change, perhaps even
so small a change as just what we are doing here in sharing this
information, it can change everything in a nonlinear
way.'

We
know what IS. So, let us become colinear and Act in Favor of our
Destiny. It is time to defend it.

A
member of our Quantum Future School writes regarding the petition
above:

Think about what is going on today. Consider if you have
children the kind of world you want your children to be raised in.
Those who are aware know that we have very little "freedom". But
sadly even the little we have will be gone if we sit around and do
nothing. Freedom is not gained by being passive neither can it
stand without being defended. Why are we giving it away? Even if we
know that the electoral process is rigged something can be done.
Remember greedy people are always in fear of losing their source of
food. We the people are their source of food. Contact your elected
representatives. Afterall, they do not want to be booted out of
office.

Take an extra minute or two to copy the petition and paste it
into an email to your own representatives. Go
HERE to
email YOUR representatives! It only takes a couple of minutes, and
a minimum of effort. Remember: if the flapping of the wings of a
butterfly can initiate a hurricane, then adding your voice to the
thousands of others already raised against the acts of the current
administration CAN make a difference!

And, if you
think they aren't already practicing for the New Fascist Regime,
read the following!

Scores of Houston police officers swarmed onto the
Kmart parking lot in the 8400 block of Westheimer about 12:30 a.m.
Sunday and arrested about 425 people for criminal trespassing, a
misdemeanor. They also arrested many innocent bystanders. - "We
went to use the restroom at Kmart and to buy a Scrunchi (hair
band), and when we came back to our car, cops were coming in (the
parking lot) and they tied our hands," said Brandi Ratliff, 18, who
said she was a straight-A student at Waller High School and never
had any problems with the law. - Ratliff said that even though she
and two friends told police they had just come out of the Kmart,
all three were arrested and spent the night in jail. "It was
traumatic," said a tearful Ratliff on Sunday morning after her
parents drove from Stafford to pay her $300 bail at the downtown
city jail. "It was sick where they were holding us. A prostitute
was fighting with another woman. The food they served was food you
would serve to a dog, not a human." Ratliff and her two friends,
Kris Karsteter, 21, and Kyesa Scott, 18, all had pink marks on
their wrists from where they said police had tied plastic handcuffs
too tightly.

Emily Demmler, 19, said: "All I was doing was eating ice
cream." Demmler said the only trouble she'd previously had with
authorities was being called into the principal's office twice in
elementary school for gossiping. She said she pulled her car into
the Sonic lot shortly after midnight so she and her two friends
could get some ice cream after a night of karaoke. After about five
minutes, police "just swarmed," Demmler said. "We thought we were
in the middle of a drug bust, and we thought, `We're cool; we're
not doing anything wrong,' " said Demmler, a part-time lifeguard at
the Jewish Community Center who is starting college this fall at
the University of Houston. Instead, all the patrons at the Sonic
were ordered by police to march to the Kmart lot, where they joined
throngs of other people who were being arrested, she said. -
Demmler said many youths appearing to be 13 or 14 were arrested and
taken to juvenile detention facilities, adding,

"They even arrested a 10-year-old girl who was having dinner
with her father and took her to juvenile detention. - "She got
separated from her father and I asked her how old she was, and she
told me she was 10," Demmler said. "She was dazed." - Leanne
Williams said her 19-year-old son called her from jail and told her
he showed police a receipt for bottled water from Kmart, but he was
still arrested.

Severe Electromagnetic Disturbance RIGHT NOW
- Michael Mandeville says: I predict strongly that another
excessive rain front and flood wave will push through the Northern
latitudes beginning in about a week to peak in about two weeks. It
should not be as severe as this last two weeks. Then in September,
the Northern Latitudes will get some real rain as Venus and Mercury
pull together towards the Earth and pull the sunspot count above
300 for a couple of weeks or so. No more of this puny flooding!!!
Time for some serious waterfall!!!!! Time to put all of Northern
and Eastern Europe's art in the attic. GET THIS, RIGHT NOW SCIENCE,
SUNSPOTS, AND ALL, I MEAN ALL, OF THE PSYCHICS I AM AWARE OF ARE
PARALLELING ON SEPTEMBER FOR MAJOR WEATHER TRAUMA. BATTEN ALL
HATCHES. Cassiopaea sez: Tornadoes Florida -
several. Also Texas and Alabama. [When the] Sun is in Libra. This
was given with no year, but was connected to an "invasion." See
Noë and The Ark
for a discussion of the possibilities. Also see: Something Wicked This Way Comes and connect the
dots! We seem to be in the lull before a storm.

French Sept. 11 Picture Has Anti-U.S.
Elements - Embattled media giant Vivendi Universal's Studio
Canal production unit commissioned 11 prominent film directors to
each do an 11-minute short inspired by last year's attacks, and
gave them "total freedom of expression." - The movie's first
segment, from Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf, begins with
Iranian schoolchildren explaining, "The United States want to bomb
us, so we must built shelters." - "The U.S. and Israel are
democracies, their governments are elected by their people -- thus
it is legitimate to attack their people," says the character, an
unnamed filmmaker. - The segment goes on to talk about "the
civilizations destroyed by the U.S.," and "the millions of victims"
of American policy from Vietnam to Somalia. - Even the British
segment of the omnibus film takes the United States to task.
Directed by left-wing filmmaker Ken Loach, the segment focuses on
another Sept. 11 tragedy, the 1973 coup d'etat against Chile's
Marxist president Salvador Allende and the support provided to the
subsequent military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet by U.S.
president Richard Nixon. - Several of the other segments are
fiercely critical of the United States -- a fact that could prove
embarrassing, once the picture opens in French moviehouses Sept. 11
and in various international film festivals beginning with Toronto
and Venice over the next few weeks.

How an unpaid conservative board that
holds private meetings and puts nothing in writing gets heard at
the Pentagon. - Meeting last month in Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld's private conference room, a group called the Defense
Policy Board heard an outside expert, armed only with a
computerized PowerPoint briefing, denounce the Saudis for being
"active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to
financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to
cheerleader." - The Pentagon briefer's solution to the Saudi
problem was provocative in the extreme: Washington should declare
the Saudis the enemy, he said, and threaten to take over the oil
wells if the kingdom doesn't do more to combat Islamic terrorism.
"I thought the briefing was ridiculous," a board member said, "a
waste of time, and the quicker he left the better." When the
briefing leaked to the press, it sent diplomatic tremors
ricocheting to Riyadh.

This is the kind of thinking that routinely takes place inside
the Defense Policy Board, the Secretary's private think tank
Chaired by Richard Perle — a Reagan Pentagon official whose
hard-line views won him the title "Prince of Darkness"--the board
gives its 31 unpaid members something every Washington player
wants: unrivaled access without accountability. Perle uses his post
as a springboard for his unilateralist, attack-Iraq views to try to
whip the Bush Administration into action.

In
effect, the board has become Perle's podium. It rarely achieved any
notice before he assumed the chairmanship last year, but now his
position there lends weight to his public
pronouncements.

Thousands of people were evacuated from
their homes in northern Germany on Wednesday as floods which have
caused havoc in the east surged towards Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder's home state.

Thousands of Chinese soldiers reinforced
dykes around a lake the size of Luxembourg on Wednesday as
it near bursting point, threatening millions of people, state media
said. - China's summer floods, which began early this year, have
already killed more than 900 people, prompting warnings from
government officials that they could be more deadly than in 1998. -
Tropical storm Vongfong pounded the southern province of Guangdong
on Tuesday before moving east to neighboring Guangxi, where it
killed eight people, and then to Hunan where it has swollen rivers
feeding into Dongting Lake, state media said.

Seth Shostak has a vision of aliens from outer
space. It is not one of little green men or bald,
bulbous-brained geeks. His is a rational vision, one built on hard
facts and intelligent speculation, which is hardly surprising given
that he is senior astronomer with the SETI Institute in California.
Forget what you've seen on The X-Files, SETI – the search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence – is the serious,
scientifically based endeavour of looking for signs of other
civilisations beyond Earth. Cassiopaea
comments: SETI Schmetti! SETI stands for "search for extra
terrestrial intelligence," now why don't you all start a search for
a method to invent indoor plumbing?

India villagers blame UFO for attacks -
Doctors dismiss the stories as mass hysteria. - The police have
another explanation: bugs. See also: India calls in X-Files agents to unmask face-scratching
alien - The Times of India reported that the national
intelligence bureau was sufficiently concerned to send its own
agents, like Mulder and Scully from television’s X-Files, to
investigate the “alien” invasion. - The agents
concluded that the villagers were right and that they were indeed
experiencing an extra-terrestrial invasion.

Japanese scientists are planning to use
tissue from the legs and testicles of a dead mammoth to
clone the extinct creature and display it at an Ice Age wildlife
park in Siberia. - Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago,
but using a technique that involves impregnating an Indian elephant
-- its closest genetic relative -- with mammoth sperm and then
repeating the procedure with its offspring could produce a creature
that is 88 percent mammoth in 50 years, the report said. - There
are believed to be ten million mammoths buried in the permafrost in
Siberia, but because of the sparse population in the region only
around one hundred specimens have been recovered.

President Bush will propose - making it
easier for the timber industry to thin national forests, backing a
change in federal rules the White House says will reduce the kind
of devastating fires sweeping the western states this
summer.

Widow's Book Sheds More Light on Last
Moments of Flight 93 on Sept. 11 - Beamer bases her account on what
she heard from the plane's cockpit recorder and conversations
passengers had with friends and loved ones on the ground. -
Prosecutors and other law enforcement officials have not made the
cockpit recording public, saying it could still be used as
evidence. They also have never publicly confirmed whether they
believe the passengers did in fact manage to thwart the hijackers
or whether the plane crashed into a field for some other
reason.

A newspaper publisher is asking a judge to
publicly release any cockpit tape recordings and
transcripts introduced at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the
accused September 11 conspirator. - The government had cited a law
that prevents disclosure of cockpit voice recordings, except in a
courtroom. In this instance, the newspaper said, the recordings
already have been disclosed to other government agencies and were
played for some relatives of the victims of Flight 93.

As a deadline nears for the United
States to elaborate why it is holding without charges an
American captured fighting with the Taliban, federal prosecutors
filed a new round of appeals over the man's legal status. - Last
Friday, Doumar ordered the government to produce more information
by Wednesday about the criteria used to declare Hamdi an enemy
combatant. The government says the court has no authority to demand
the information and has refused to provide the material. - In its
filing, the government asked the appeals court to block Doumar's
order until the issue is resolved. - The central issue continues to
be whether the courts have any power to intervene when the
executive branch has declared someone from the battlefield to be an
enemy combatant.

Iraq Says Abu Nidal Shot Himself in the
Mouth - as Iraqi officials waited in his home to take him
to court, the head of Iraqi intelligence said Wednesday. - Haboush
suggested there was only one shot. When the security officers
arrived at his home, Abu Nidal said he needed to go to his bedroom
to change his clothes, Haboush said. A shot was fired, and the
officers found that Abu Nidal had shot himself in the mouth, he
said. Abu Nidal was rushed to hospital where he died eight hours
later, Haboush said. - Haboush showed photos of what he said was
the body of Abu Nidal in a hospital intensive care unit: a
gray-haired man in a bed, blankets pulled up to his chest, his face
streaked with blood that has soaked the pillow under his head. -
Haboush said agents found evidence that Abu Nidal had been
communicating with another country, but gave no details. "We also
found documents that prove he had contacts with a (foreign)
country," Haboush said. "Due to the current critical circumstances
our country is going through, we will not name it."

Ian Huntley was charged yesterday with
murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by police investigating
the Soham double killing. Fiancée Maxine Carr is charged with
attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Masked German police commandos brought a
peaceful end to the occupation of the Iraqi embassy in Berlin last
night. A little-known Iraqi opposition group had burst in and taken
four hostages, including the acting ambassador. - The attack was
described by the Iraqi government as "terrorist aggression" by
mercenaries of the Israeli and American intelligence
services.

Israeli commandos shot dead the brother of the
leader of a radical Palestinian faction yesterday, stoking
anger in the West Bank less than a day after setting out on a new
security accord which was supposed to create calm. - Israeli
special forces killed Mohammed Sa'adat, 23, at his house in
Ramallah, dealing a blow to the already poor survival chances of
the new accord. - The killing is likely to trigger more bloodshed
because the PFLP has a reputation of avenging Israeli attacks. When
Israel assassinated its leader last year, the group responded by
gunning down an Israeli cabinet minister, bringing the conflict to
new crisis point.

The Bush administration has abandoned a
plan to launch a military strike against a small radical
Kurdish group in northern Iraq with supposed links to al-Qa'ida
that was apparently experimenting with toxic agents and poison
gas.

Egypt will not let US warships pass through Suez
Canal - Qatar News Agency (QNA)- Dr. Oasma Al Baz,
political advisor to the Egyptian president, said Egypt will not
allow passage through the Suez Canal of US ships headed to strike
Iraq. - Egypt rejects any military operation against Iraq, its
territorial unity, independence and safety of Iraqi people, adding
any military attack on Iraq represents a vary dangerous step
endangering the security of the region. Dr. Al Baz said the
question of UN weapons inspectors is an issue which concerns the UN
and the Security Council and not Washington and the US has no
right to take any military action against Iraq nor has the right to
interfere in the internal affairs of another country and impose a
set-up of new leadership on its people.

Archbishop of Sydney steps down over
claims that he molested a 12-year-old boy when he was a
trainee priest 40 years ago. Dr. Pell provoked anger last month
when he said abortion was worse than sexual abuse by priests. - The
Catholic Church in Australia, as in Ireland and America, has been
convulsed by accusations that some clergy committed wide-spread
sexual abuse. Millions of dollars in compensation have been paid to
victims, and Dr Pell said 90 priests in the past six years had been
convicted of molesting children. - Dr Pell said he had taken a lead
in exposing sexual abuse within the Church, setting up the first
independent commission to examine the issue six years ago. In June,
he and his counterpart in Melbourne, Archbishop Denis Hart, took
out full-page newspaper advertisements apologising for the Church's
failure to deal more swiftly with the issue. The advertisements
followed claims that Dr Pell offered A$50,000 (£17,500) to the
parents of two girls abused by a priest for six years in an effort
to buy their silence. He initially denied it, then admitted
offering the sum, but said it was compensation, not "hush money".
Dr Pell has also denied offering a bribe to a man who approached
him for help 10 years ago, saying he had been abused by his uncle,
a priest. The man claims the archbishop told him: "I want to know
what it will take to keep you quiet."

Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, loses
to former state judge and political newcomer Denise Majette. - In
her loss, McKinney joined Rep. Earl Hilliard, Democrat of Alabama,
as the second black lawmaker targeted by Jewish groups to lose a
re-election bid in the post-September 11 era. Fueled by
contributions from the Jewish community, Majette raised more money
than the incumbent. Why was she targeted?
Because she was demanding answers about possible Israeli
involvement in the WTC attack. Majette criticized McKinney
for accepting campaign contributions from Arab-Americans with
possible ties to terrorist organizations, including several who
were named in a lawsuit by families of September 11 victims. In
response, McKinney said her campaign would not "racially profile"
contributors.